The following was being displayed on the title page of the forum a short time ago.
Registered users: Google [Bot], MSN [Bot], William, Yahoo [Bot]
Argh!
William Overington
17 November 2008
They are true bots that are noticed by phpBB3. By identifying them, they are no longer included in the visitor count, so hopefully those figures will have more meaning in the future.
I believe I understand bots, but what’s a spider?
It’s a crawler 
Wow, just now there are seven registered users online!
Ask Jeeves [Bot], Baidu [Spider], Exabot [Bot], Google [Bot], MSN [Bot], William, Yahoo [Bot]
William Overington
14 March 2009
Bots and spiders testify to the value of and interest in this site.
Questions and Queries have slowed down recently ever since those bots got interested… It’ll start up again when Erwin gets a new version out!!
Is that an incentive or what?! Hah.